{"id":31682,"date":"2018-01-11T04:57:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T12:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=31682"},"modified":"2018-01-11T04:57:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T12:57:30","slug":"slow-to-anger-does-not-mean-we-are-guiltless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/11\/slow-to-anger-does-not-mean-we-are-guiltless\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow to anger does not mean we are guiltless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:19.86.15\"><b>Psalms 86:15<\/b>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. \u00a0Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your maidservant. \u00a0Show me a sign of your favor, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame because you, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:19.103.8\"><b>Psalms 103:8<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:19.111.4\"><b>Psalms 111:4<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0He has caused his wondrous works to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and merciful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:19.130.4\"><b>Psalms 130:4<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:19.130.7\"><b>Psalms 130:7<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:4.14.18\"><b>Numbers 14:18<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u2018The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:16.9.17\"><b>Nehemiah 9:17<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:33.7.18\"><b>Micah 7:18<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:49.1.7\"><b>Ephesians 1:7<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:49.2.4\"><b>Ephesians 2:4<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,\u00a0\u00a0even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ\u2014by grace you have been saved\u2014\u00a0\u00a0and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,\u00a0\u00a0so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s \u00a0mercy, grace, kindness, slow to anger, wondrous works, redemption, and steadfast love are to be praised. \u00a0We ought to honor and glorify Him for these. \u00a0We ought to live like these mean something to us. \u00a0They are not to be disregarded or taken lightly. \u00a0They are to be the first thought that comes to mind each morning and the last thought meditated in the evening. \u00a0Are they? \u00a0Our time is consumed by things of the this world that try to rob us from remembering these attributes and promises of God. \u00a0If we do not take care the cares of this world will soon blind us of the wonders and works of God. \u00a0Neglect and complacency so creep into our daily lives. I am not sure we fully understand the magnitude of this choice. \u00a0To keep them front and center in our heart and mind \u00a0is a choice. \u00a0A good place to start and a good place to remain is reading His word. \u00a0Keeping His word in our heart and mind continues to remind us of Him and how great and awesome He is. \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lord keep me from believing any lies from the enemy. \u00a0Help me to live in the truth of your word.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.\u201d Psalms 86:15\u00a0\u00a0But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. \u00a0Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your maidservant. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/11\/slow-to-anger-does-not-mean-we-are-guiltless\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Slow to anger does not mean we are guiltless&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31762,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31682\/revisions\/31762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}